Andes Rising - Couverture rigide

Munves, James

 
9780811214070: Andes Rising
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0811214079 ISBN 13 : 9780811214070
Editeur : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1999

Synopsis

A new American novel-about an ornothologist, a physicist, and a rabbi-that takes us deep into the heart of the Colombian Andes. In Andes Rising the reader is confronted with a mystery. What happened to Thomas Cooper? A scientist who had worked on the Manhattan Project and attended the disarmament conference following World War II, he had quit his job, left his family, and gone off to Colombia, South America, on an ornothological project undertaken by the Peace Corps. His family and friends have lost all trace of him. Finally his mother persuades her rabbi to go down to Colombia and find out if Thomas is dead or alive. What the rabbi eventually finds is Thomas's journal filled with notes about his bird studies, ruminations about life (to which the rabbi sometimes responds), and pages from the work of Chapman, the early 20th-century ornothologist who collected specimens for the Museum of Natural History. Flashing through all is a rare tanager with turquoise markings. The director of the project wants Thomas to bring in specimens of this bird. "If what is being prepared is another extermination," Thomas writes, "I am not going to abet it by pushing another bird to extinction." But is he slowly going mad? Does he die in the avalanche, or is he somewhere among the birds of the Andes?

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À propos de l'auteur

The author James Munves (1922-2018) obtained his degree in English from Brown University. From 1970 to 1973 he lived in Colombia, home to more bird species than anywhere else in the world, where he wrote his manuscript of Andes Rising. Although the manuscript was finished in the 70s it was not published until 1998 when Munves stumbled upon it in his old files. Author of a number of books on history and contemporary issues, he has published short stories in various magazines including Confrontation and The New Yorker.

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Éditeur
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Date d'édition
1999
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0811214079
ISBN 13 
9780811214070
Reliure
Relié
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
189
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Personne responsable
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